• Thomas William Pierrepoint (6 October 1870 – 11 February 1954) was an English executioner from 1906 until 1946. He was the brother of Henry Pierrepoint...
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  • career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire...
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  • of Albert Thomas Pierrepoint (1870–1954), British executioner, brother of Henry Pierrepoint (film), British 2005 film about Albert Pierrepoint Pierpoint...
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    of Thomas William Pierrepoint. Pierrepoint was born in Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire, the fourth child and second son of Thomas Pierrepoint, a plate...
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  • Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This...
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    1944. Private Madison Thomas, a 23-year old soldier, was hanged on 12 October 1944 by Thomas Pierrepoint and Albert Pierrepoint. He was convicted by a...
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    for its closure were announced. Barlinnie was designed by Major General Thomas Bernard Collinson, architect and engineer to the Scottish Prison Department...
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  • and were performed by the civilian executioner Thomas Pierrepoint with assistance by Albert Pierrepoint (his nephew) and other British personnel. When...
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  • convicted him of murder. He was hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie by Thomas Pierrepoint. Razor gangs ruled the streets but even in the violence of pre-war...
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  • 1941, Armstrong was executed by hanging at HM Prison Wandsworth by Thomas Pierrepoint. "British engineer hanged for treason", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 9 July...
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